Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #965219: > Peter Macgown wrote in post #965218: >> Hi Marnen, >> >> I have three different PC's running Windows (2 XP's and 1 Vista) at >> disparate locations. > > Those should be binary-compatible, then. (Why you'd torture yourself > with Windows is another question. :) ). > > Unix is moot since it is not available to me. > > Of course it's available to you: you can always install a VM. >
Unfortunately, this would complicate matters for me. Not only would I be trying to teach myself Ruby, I would be futzing with a VM configuration and I wouldn't know what was wrong if it didn't work. >> I do >> not want to be limited to do development at a single location. >> >> My use case is to capture sensor gestalt from an Arduino board and store >> it in a database for later analysis. > > I didn't mean the nature of the application you're developing; I mean > *your* use case -- the reason that *you* want to have a flash drive to > carry with you with Ruby on it. > I want to carry a flash drive so I can do development in different places without having to install Ruby on each of them. >> >> The nature of the idea is not a guiding parameter. I am just trying to >> see if I can do it in Ruby. > > Do *what* in Ruby? Development off a Flash drive or Arduino data > acquisition? > It's sort of a fake project and I was looking for an excuse to do it. I've been playing with an Arduino board and thought that it would be interesting if I could use Ruby to collect the data rather than C++, C#, or another .net thing I have hanging around. Using a flash drive solves one of the problems. I have an hour to spare here and there at different locations and wanted to take advantage of them without having to set up a development environment for each one of the computers. >> The Rails part intrigues me since it can be >> used for other languages besides Ruby. > > What? Rails is built in Ruby. There's no question of other languages. > Or do I misunderstand. > Nope. You get it. I show my ignorance here about Ruby and its relationship with Rails, or Rails in general for that matter. There is, however, a book out there that talks about developing Flash programs using Rails and I was making an oblique referenct to this. > If this is not specifically a Rails development environment you're > trying to set up, then you are likely to get better answers on the main > Ruby list. > Perhaps so. However, one of the parameters for this project is to use Rails. Not just Ruby. Two birds with one stone, so to speak. The point, I guess, is to answer the question, "can it be done?". If yes, that's great. If no, that's great too. If the answer is no, then the next step is to determine how to be as minimally invasive to the desktop as possible to make it work. >> >> --Peter > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
